BSc: Advanced Compilers Construction and Program Analysis

Advanced Compilers Construction and Program Analysis

• Course name: Advanced Compilers Construction and Program Analysis
• Code discipline: XYZ
• Subject area: xxx

Short Description

This course covers the following concepts: Advanced Compilers Construction and Program Analysis concepts:.

Course Topics

Course Sections and Topics

Section	Topics within the section
Introduction to subject, computer networks basics, transport layer protocols, and socket programming	General introduction to the course Computer networks basic Socket programming UDP socket programming TCP socket programming
Coordination, consistency, and replication in distributed systems
Fault tolerance and security in distributed systems

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

What is the main purpose of this course?

Advanced Compilers Construction and Program Analysis have become

ILOs defined at three levels

Level 1: What concepts should a student know/remember/explain?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

Level 2: What basic practical skills should a student be able to perform?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

Level 3: What complex comprehensive skills should a student be able to apply in real-life scenarios?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

Grading

Course grading range

Grade	Range	Description of performance
A. Excellent	90-100	-
B. Good	75-89	-
C. Satisfactory	60-74	-
D. Poor	0-59	-

Course activities and grading breakdown

Activity Type	Percentage of the overall course grade
Laboratory assignments	55%
Final exam	35%
Attendance	10%

Resources, literature and reference materials

Open access resources

• Textbook:. Available online:
• Reference:. Available online:
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Teaching Methodology: Methods, techniques, & activities

Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities within each section

Learning Activities	Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4
Development of individual parts of software product code	1	1	1	1
Homework and group projects	1	1	1	1
Testing (written or computer based)	1	1	1	1
Oral polls	1	1	1	1
Discussions	1	1	1	1

Formative Assessment and Course Activities

Ongoing performance assessment

Section 1

Activity Type	Content	Is Graded?
Question	?	1
Question	.	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1

Section 2

Activity Type	Content	Is Graded?
Question	You have a list of large numbers, and you need to find if they are prime or not. Would you use multithreading, multiprocessing, or sequential programming in order to complete the task asap? Prove it in practice.	0
Question	You need to send multiple requests to a server and receive responses. Assume there is a few msecs of delay before you receive the response from the server. Would you use multithreading, multiprocessing, or sequential programming in order to complete the task asap? Prove it in practice. (Order of the requests/responses doesn't matter)	0
Question	Discuss two ways of creating the threads using threading module in Python: 1) passing the worker function as a target, 2) subclassing the Thread class	0
Question	Given the function implemented locally, make it available to be called through RPC from remote process? Use xmlRPC.	0

Section 3

Activity Type	Content	Is Graded?
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1
Question	?	1

Section 4

Activity Type	Content	Is Graded?
Question	Same as above	0

Final assessment

Section 1

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

1. Same as above

The retake exam

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4